Document Type
Annual Report
Publication Date
2002
Publisher
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Publisher Location
Las Vegas (Nev.)
First page number:
1
Last page number:
42
Abstract
The UNLV Transmutation Research Program was established in March 2001 as part of the national Advanced Accelerator Applications program to develop the technologies necessary for the ecological and economical treatment of spent nuclear fuel.
The primary role of the UNLV program in the national effort is the training of graduate and undergraduate students in nuclear engineering and other related fields to support the augmentation of the U.S. human infrastructure for transmutation technologies.
To accomplish this role, UNLV has developed the TRP with the primary focus of supporting student research into transmutation and supporting technologies. This focus is realized through the student research component of the TRP, which is designed to operate as an internal research grant program supporting student research at UNLV.
These research programs span the range of technology areas for transmutation, from the chemical separation of uranium from spent nuclear fuel, to the optimization of super-conducting components for proton accelerators, to the corrosion of materials exposed to lead-bismuth eutectic.
Keywords
Higher education; Radioactive wastes; Research; Transmutation Research Program
Controlled Subject
Nuclear fuels--Waste disposal; Radioactive wastes--Transmutation; Radiochemistry
Disciplines
Nuclear | Nuclear Engineering | Radiochemistry
File Format
File Size
2200 KB
Language
English
Repository Citation
Hechanova, A.,
Johnson, E.,
Cerefice, G.
(2002).
University of Nevada, Las Vegas Transmutation Research Program Annual Report 2001.
1-42.
Available at:
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/hrc_trp_reports/26